2016-09-14

, the Californian trumpeter and the co-founder of A&M Records, rose to fame fronting the popular easy listening mariachi combo, Tijuana Brass, in the 1960s. They released a slew of albums and scored memorable instrumental hits in the shape of 'The Lonely Bull' and 'A Taste Of Honey' but ironically, Alpert's biggest hit of that decade was when he reinvented himself as a vocalist on his 1968 smash-hit version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's 'This Guy's In Love With You.'  But come

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